[ LINUX ] Is Mupen64 working for you under LINUX ??

[patrick295767]

[ LINUX ] Is Mupen64 working for you under LINUX ??

We are having some troubles with playing games N64 with LINUX.
(Super MArio 64 is the one that works fully well)
(there is no way almost for Zelda)

How much is it working for you ; which distro ?
Which plugins : video , audio, controls ?

Share your thoughts and impressions !

Thank you



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(Fake64 is depreciated compared to mupen64. Mupen64 is the only hope we have)

 

[Hacktarux]

Sure, it is possible to get zelda working, give us some more informations on what you have tried:

- computer specs
- plugins
- what's the problem exactly
...

 

[patrick295767]

Sure, it is possible to get zelda working, give us some more informations on what you have tried:

- computer specs
- plugins
- what's the problem exactly
...

Thank you for your beginning of help !
I am sorry for the delay for the reply.

I will withni 1-2 days maxi make a clear details for the found problems.
The colors in Zelda arenn't displayed correctly ; they are red sky.

Concerning the Mario64, I observed that with my Xfree86 & 2000Ghz is not enough to have sound in good synchro with the video. It's like there is lags. The ppracer is working fine & glxgears too. Ati rage all in wonder card.

On other PC, it's fine because they are really big cpu.

I have very often the programs that crash
when trying to use the Game pad. On this same pc, no gamepad is made possible.

I'll give you more detaisl sooon; in the time, you might have a look there:
we are working on the mupen64 & N64 emulations
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=232217
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=227510

I hope that this will help the linux community to be faster for games , beetter in gaming than Windoze because as you know, hte linux capabiliities in beign faster than windoze has been shown since some time
but for games, with winex/ cedega it's slightly slower unfortunately

Hoping that some persons will help us in progressing with Emulators !

Cheers
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By the way, if you knwo hwo to play this game: hat could help us too:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=227713
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Thank you ver ymuch !

 

[play0r]

Re:

Mupen64 works considerablely well considering my boxes specs:
Distro: Ubuntu 6.06 LTS aka Dapper Drake (2.6.17.8 kernel)
CPU: 11000mHz AMD
RAM: 768MB PC133
GPU: 64MB ATI Radeon 7000 Series

these are the plugins i use (and really the only ones that really work proper under my current setup):
GFX: Glide64 v0.7 SP8
Audio: dummy audio plugin (sucks that i have no sound, but prevents sync related lagging)
Input: blight's SDL input plugin 0.0.10
RSP: Hacktarus/Azimer hle rsp plugin

here's my device section from /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
Section "Device"
Identifier "ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon RV100 QY [Radeon 7000/VE]"
Driver "radeon"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
VideoRam 65536
Option "RenderAccel" "true"
Option "AGPMode" "4"
Option "AGPFastWrite" "on"
EndSection

my issues with mupen64 seem to be CPU/GPU related (some confirmation of that would be nice, so i can quit second guessing myself lol). mupen64 eats up a massive ammount of CPU resources during emulation in both gui & no_gui modes (which is not supprizing imho, but it's leading to slight problems), so for instance when i play MP3's with XMMS i get a slight drop in FPS (2-5 FPS, sometimes more depending on the game). i have direct rendering enabled according to glxinfo, but i'm sure with that GPU a lot of it could be resolved by moving to a Nvidia card. especially since ATI support in linux is seriously lacking.
but if anyone has any pointers & or tips that may help clear up some of the FPS loss via plugin setup or even my device section in xorg.conf, it would be much appreciated!
also, if someone has some x86 deb packages (for both gui & no_gui) that jive with ubuntu's package setup that'd be supercool.

ez,
play0r

 

[simukas]

what is the best configuration for a slow pc? i tried everything but still can't get the games running at full speed

 

[simukas]

i have a 800mgz 198ram pc without a graphics car(its integrated in my motherboard)